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Our American view of masculinity has been constructed by the media and perpetuated through dominance. These ideas are instilled in us at such a young age, which is why we see adolescent boys act this way. We are socialized to feel pressure to conform to gender norms because we are taught to insult or degrade those who are different. The video “Tough Guise” was great to watch after reading this article because they are directly related. The video just shows how these stigmas aren’t just present...

Title: Men, Masculinity and Family Planning in Barbados since 1950
Personal reflection: initially I wanted to talk about something that had to do with women I was redirected to this topic about men, Masculinity and family planning in Barbados since the 1950s. This topic has proved to be very informative and a study of masculinity is definitely needed as one author said you can’t do a study on women without also looking at masculinity. Feminism has been studied for over four decades while...

Masculinity; Not Something for the Average Joe
Take one look at a male biker, bodybuilder, or surfer and see if you can’t avoid at least some feeling of intimidation. Most people, men in particular, cannot overcome this challenge. The majority of men, despite what they may say, can’t help but to develop a sense of discomfort when put in the presence of these distinct figures. But what gives these iconic men such an intimidation factor? Is it a physical characteristic such as huge biceps or an...

Masculinity
A cowboy, the strong and silent “man’s man” is the iconic figure of masculinity. The same cowboy also has a certain fragileness. The perception of a man usually does not reveal the fragile side. However, Gretel Ehrlich reveals this underlying soft side of cowboys in About Men (1985), and Paul Theroux explains in Being a Man (1985) that the idea of manhood is pitiful because there is a fragile side to every man.
Ehrlich talks about the rugged lifestyle of a cowboy. He paints this...

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The search for becoming a man begins the moment young Johnny realizes he is different from his counterpart Jane. At this epiphany the search begins to find out his true identity. As Johnny’s eyes are open to his manhood he departs on a lifelong journey into his masculinity. What the young boy doesn’t know is that along the way he will be faced with many false ideologies of manhood. The biggest culprit lies in the portrayal of men in the media. The media is saturated with male role models....

10 September, 2012
Discussion Questions: #2
What is it about masculinity that is so powerful? For most men masculinity is a way to show power or strength. A man must always show his power and strength around other males to gain respect from his peers. In some cases masculinity can go too far and become an instigator towards violence and fighting. Masculinity is so important in the life of a male that their whole life might evolve around it, affecting their actions. But masculinity has...

Idea – perhaps for context – have to give examples of how masculine stereotype is portrayed for thousands of years – greek mythology – ancient stories – see man as breadwinner.
MASCULINITY – CULTURAL IDENTITY
* Characteristics of masculinity and femininity are naturalised in almost every society, but differ based on diverse environments, values and changing time periods. In literature, these assumptions come to underpin the construction of key characters.
* In Tim Winton’s...

﻿Masculinity in the Bible
Masculinity is defined by Susan Haddox to have four major characteristics. “1) Strength and skill as a warrior, 2) honor, including generosity and protecting ones family and clan, 3) bravery, and 4) persuasiveness, honesty and forthrightness.”1 These four characteristics of masculinity can be applied to many of the characters in the biblical stories including Gideon, David, and Jesus. The masculine traits mentioned are examples of hegemonic masculinity which means the...

MASCULINITY LEVEL
Masculinity is a set of qualities, characteristics or roles generally considered typical of, or appropriate to, a man. What if, a man turns into women? Are they masculine level decreases or gone automatically? How about their Role Identity? What about their impact in society? Across a country torn by recession and struggling to adapt to social change, men and boys are feeling lost and powerless, unsure what the future holds and what role they might play in it. Most feel as if...

Throughout history and across culture, definitions of masculinity and femininity have varied dramatically, leading researchers to argue that gender, and specifically gender roles, are socially constructed (see Cheng, 1999). Cheng (1999:296) further states that “one should not assume that ‘masculine’ behaviour is performed only by men, and by all men, while ‘feminine’ behaviour is performed by women and by all women”. Such historical and cultural variations oppose the essentialist view that...

﻿Keith Gonzales
Mr. Windham
English IV – Slot 1
16 September 2014
Masculinity in Beowulf
The Poem Beowulf was composed sometime between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century of the first millennium; it was originally written in Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. This heroic epic about the experiences of a Scandinavian prince, Beowulf, and currently stands as one of the foundation works of English poetry. Beowulf, the protagonist in the story, exemplifies his masculine aspects...

Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept
Origins: it formulated 2 decades ago, it was first proposed in reports from a field study in social inequality in Australian schools. “Towards a new sociology of Masculinity” critiques male sex role literatures and proposed a model of multiple masculinities and power relations. The gramscian term hegemony was current at the time in attempts to understand the stabilization of class relations. Before the women’s liberation movement, a literature...

﻿Madison Mock
Writ 201
11/15/14
Dominican Masculinity and Its Downfall
In reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, there is a large emphasis imposed on both male and female gender roles of the Dominican Republic. Gender roles are social and behavioral norms that, within a specific culture, are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex. However in this book, it is apparent that there is an extreme machismo attitude that is expected of men...

Hegemonic masculinity refers to the culturally normative ideal behaviours of males. This concept is based on the assumption that there is a hierarchy of masculine behaviour, suggesting that most societies encourage men to exemplify a dominant version of masculinity. Hegemonic masculinity is competitive and reflects an inclination for males to pursue domination over other males and subordinate females. Contrary to feminism, anti-femininity demonstrates a male’s strong aversion and fear of being...

Masculinity and feminism dimension focuses on how extent to which a society stress achievement or nurture. Masculinity is seen to be the trait, which emphasizes ambition, acquisition of wealth, and differentiated gender roles. Femininity is seen to be the trait that stress caring and nurturing behaviors, sexuality equality, environmental awareness, and more fluid gender roles.
Portuguese culture’s dimension on masculinity and feminism is that based on our findings the culture itself has been...

Robyn
Instructor
English 100
2 September 2012
Summary of “The High Cost of Manliness”
In this essay called “The High Cost of Manliness” written by Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas, in Austin, he tells us that “if we could get rid of the whole idea of masculinity, we have a chance to create a better world for men and women.” He states that it’s not easy to be a man in our society, especially with the demands that come with the dominant conception...

A New Construction of Masculinity
Boys and young men learn early on that being a real man means you have to put on this tough guy persona. This persona’s manifestation are hyper-masculinity or machismo, independence, isolation, territorialism, inability to show emotions, inability to initiate emotional ties with other men, inability to recognize their need for community and sharing (Heath, 2003). In contrast with the construct of masculinity in classical Greek literatures where male-male...

Michelle Barrandey
WMST 113.3004
Professor Sully
4/28/13
Disney and masculinity
today I want to present my project about how Disney films show masucliity in almost all Disney movies and the four types of masculinity.i want to give everyone the idea of how disney have shaped and influenecesx the idea of masculinity,feminisxm and gender roles in young kids . Disney has many films in ehich thy show masuclinyt, feminicism and gender roles and often include...

Both Vertigo and Laura raise the idea of masculinity, and it's place and role in society and character. The relationships in both films, particularly those between the male protagonists and women, highlight the differing ideas of masculinity. The character of Scottie in Vertigo highlights how relationship with women can greatly effect the idea of masculinity, whereas this is reversed in Laura, when the title character Laura shows how she greatly changes the concept of masculinity through three...

﻿Simon Thomson
The construction of masculinity in Beowulf: hæleð under heofenum or selerædenne?
As it opens, Beowulf appears to leap confidently, taking audience with narrator into the shared world of story with wit and certainty:
Hwæt! We gardena in geardagum
(l.1)
Listen! We of the Spear Danes in the past days...1
Immediately, however, this certainty becomes qualified: we are not part of an admiring audience to the glittering past, and have not heard of the gardena...

Being a male in today’s society is not about living and enjoyment, it has become more of a task. Social pressures and media have made it difficult for males to live a life in which they are not being pressured to act or perform a certain way. In order to reassure themselves of their masculinity, violence has become the main method in assuring themselves and those around them that they are powerful. Not only is this violence being perpetrated against others, but self-inflicted violence also...

Masculinity: Who has claim?
Throughout the course of history, the social concept of the hunter and gatherer remained unprovoked. The responsibility of the hunter fell on the shoulders of men while the responsibilities of the gatherer burdened the women. Men were born to lead, protect, and fight while women were born to be submissive, serve, and care for the home. Over time, society defined the roles of the two genders. Men were attributed as “the head of the family” and “the provider”; women...

Masculinity and World War II
The image of Man has changed throughout time. Dominant constructions of masculinity, which are basically attempts to stabilize gender identity, are developed within the dynamics of shifting cultures and societies. The male stereotype, which is still prevails nowadays, started rising at the end of eighteenth – beginning nineteenth century in Europe with a great concentration on the male’s body. The stereotype made the world look at man more like a type rather than an...

“There’s no crying in baseball” (A League of Their Own). These are the famous words from Tom Hanks when he screams at one of his female major league baseball players for crying. Tom Hanks continues yelling at the baseball player by saying, “Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry?” (A League of Their Own). That line of the movie shows a perfect example of...

Masculinity vs. Femininity
Geert Hofstede
Here you can see four persons, three of them are adults and the other one is a student. One of the adult seems to be the principal of a school, the other two seem to be the parents of that student. Those people are in a room, which seems to be the bureau f the principal since the sign on the door says “principal”. The reason why the parents of the student and the principal meet is because the student is not good in school. The principal is about to...

What is Femininity & Masculinity Anyways?
Ever watch a man do the laundry? Or a woman work on cars? Well, believe it or not it does happen. Many people believe that when you're a women you're suppose to act and talk feminine and when you're a man you're suppose to talk and act masculine, but in reality both men and women have both feminine and masculine characteristics. People also believe that there's a danger in limiting people to one or the other, which there is. You're taking away basic...

﻿We have been asked to look at the following question ‘It is no longer possible in contemporary society to interpret femininity and masculinity as single identities’. Explain and critically assess this view illustrating your answers with reference to sociological theory, concepts and research.
From the minute we are born our gender identity begins even thou we are not conscious of it. We are allocated roles, like buying pink clothes, dolls, and teapots for girls, and blue clothes, monsters,...

Essay Question: Discuss the ways in which masculinity is constructed in Gallipoli and / or First Blood? What codes and norms of gender are used to construct masculinity in the film(s)?
The perception of masculinity within Australian films is a reflection of our society’s views and opinions of what it is to be considered masculine. It is continually reinforced in our society by the constructions of the male character in movies, just like Archie and Frank, in Gallipoli and particular male...

Kira Obermeier
Intro to Women's Studies
December 15, 2005
Final Paper
But Was She Really Lucky?
" but I had begun to notice that I was now on the other side of something they could not understand. I didn't understand it myself." And so begins the quest for reason and explanation in the case of Alice Sebold's rape. As she delves further and further into her story we can find many things discussed in the course of our semester in this class. Why was she raped? Why did her family and...

Ramiro Fux
Amanda Maholtz
Theory essay
Friday 9 Sept. 2011
Femininity and masculinity in the early 30’s
Femininity and masculinity or gender identity refers to the degree to which people see themselves as masculine or feminine given what it means to be a man or woman in society (Burke 1988). Femininity and masculinity are ideas imposed by society based on stereotypes that may change over time. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the author talks about how femininity and masculinity...

Hemingway’s Portrayal of Masculinity
When thinking of masculinity in literature, one author has who has become synonymous with manliness comes to mind, Ernest Hemingway. Critics have spent countless hours studying his writing in order to gain insight into his world of manly delights, including his views on sex, war, and sport. His views can be seen through his characters, his themes and even his style of writing.
The characters in Hemingway’s stories reveal much about how he feels about...

"In the Country of Men"
The Cult of masculinity
In the book "In the Country of Men", Hisham Matar, the author discusses his childhood experience in the 1970's during the revolution in Libya. The time when men overpowered and completely dominated women. The title itself describes Libya as a country that belongs to men where women are used like tools. We see that Suleiman wants to become a man as soon as possible through the story but on the other hand, the story also talks about a female...

Soccer, which is also known as football in many countries around the world, is the most popular sport in the world. According to Sudgen and Tomlinson Soccer, compromises many countries’ national sport which provides a key site for the re/production of traditional forms of aggression and masculinity at an international level. Because of this, soccer has excluded and resisted the entry of women. The portrayal of soccer in the media shows us that soccer’s world regulating organizations, FIFA,...

The Codes of a Man
In the novel Jude the Obscure there are some controversial issues of that time period are being displayed. The first of which is masculinity and how that applied to certain people of different classes and genders. The masculinity of men in that time period was defined by several things, namely, a man’s control of the house hold, and the ability to think and act rationally rather than emotionally. Jude’s character gets dissected in this book and we really get a glimpse into...

﻿Essay 3
WC: 1199
Manhood
What is a man? Do we use the definition from Google: an adult person, as distinguished from a boy or a woman? Or do we base it off of characteristics and accomplishments? Since they’ve lost all traditional definitions of masculinity, physical dominance, social importance, financial achievement: is it time for them to strike out and define a new masculinity that acknowledges whom they are but also to the world in which they were born? What does it mean to be a man?...

Quoting Macbeth
Assertion: Lady Macbeth Exhibit’s manipulative power.
Response: It is clear in following excerpt from the play that Lady Macbeth exhibits manipulative power over Macbeth by persuading him to follow through with their intentions for Duncan. “Was the hope drunk/ wherein you dress’d yourself? Hath it slept since?/ and wakes it now, to look so green and pale/ At what it did so freely? From this time/such I account thy love” (I. Vii 35-58). Lady Macbeth’s manipulative power is...

A New Masculine and Feminine Identity
Understanding cliched ideas of masculinity is fairly simple, but the process of challenging these stereotypes by defining new ideas of what it means to be masculine is exceptionally difficult. Fishing, bullfighting, and war all emphasise masculine qualities. Men are expected to delight in these things, idealizing manly events in order to increase their own sense of masculinity. Even more importantly is a man’s sense of sexual mastery. Stereotypically, a...

“‘Boyz in the Hood’: Masculinities in Native Son”
The novel Native Son by Richard Wright explores many characteristics, with masculinity being one. The main character is displayed with aggressive, violent and insensitive characteristics, which society generally deems as masculine. The word “masculinities” comes from masculinity, which according to The Oxford Dictionary means, “possession of the qualities traditionally associated with men”. Also in the title, the name “Boyz in the Hood” refers...

﻿Matars protagonist, the young Suleiman in the novel ‘In the country of men’ is essentially bewildered about what it means to be a man in the Libya of his youths. Receiving conflicting messages about the meaning of true masculinity and various impressions of what it means to be a man in Libya complicates the protagonists perception of true manhood and which is further confounded by the contradicting messages he receives about the form of heroism and betrayal. The young Suleiman is also mystified...

Things Fall Apart
Masculine/Feminine
In most cultures an individual’s gender will influence their characterization. For instance, Ibo tribes in Africa classify people according to their gender. Women are thought as submissive individuals who are to some extent weaker than men. Men on the other hand are thought of as strong beings with much expected from them. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart strongly emphasizes on the categorization of masculinity and femininity in the society of Ibo tribes....

Introduction
Death of a Salesman reveals the story of an American man confronting failure in a success-driven society and shows the tragic path which eventually leads to his suicide. Willy Loman believes in what he considers the promise of the American Dream wholeheartedly, which is based on the Declaration of Independence stated by Thomas Jefferson in 1776: "We believe that all men are born with these inalienable rights - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."(Malone, 28)
However, Willy...

An analysis of representation of masculinity in music magazines, with particular reference to Kerrang and NME magazine
‘Representation is the construction and aspects of reality in any medium, especially mass media. It can be presented in speech, writing, still and moving pictures.’ For my research investigation I will be analysing the representation of masculinity in music magazines, and will do this by studying the codes and conventions that cause the representation of masculinity ion two...

Masculinity in American Society and Hip-Hop
Never cry or show any emotion, when things happen take it like man, do not get mad, get even. These along with many other rules are makeup “the Guy Code” believed to shape what masculinity in American society. “’Bros before Hoes’: The Guy Code” by Michael Kimmel discusses a set of epigrams and analyzes American masculinity. These ideals of what is takes to be a “man” are often portrayed by hip-hop artists in today’s mainstream music industry....

Gender Identity
PSY/265
06/24/2012
University Of Phoenix
Usually when a person is said to be male or female, it is based on their sex assigned to them at birth, specific natal characteristics are used to define a person a boy or a girl. These biological features are not the only determining factor regarding gender identity. An individual’s psyche also has a significant role.
Most of the time gender identity is constructed upon the actual chromosomal...

﻿Calvin Labendia
Professor Owens
SOC-230-001
17 October 2014
Analyzing Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities
The article written by Michael Messner explores what are some true contributing factors that prepare a young boy in male-hood leading up to masculinity. He analyzes how creating the male masculine identity for a young boy can be a result of participating in organized sports. He conducted his research starting out with interviewing 30 male athletes who mostly...

George Washington University
"Standing to the Wall": The Pressures of Masculinity in Romeo and Juliet
Author(s): Robert Appelbaum
Source: Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 251-272
Published by: Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University
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Discuss Miller’s presentation of masculinity in A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller wrote this play in 1955. He has written many other plays including All My Sons, which was a success at Broadway. Miller was born in 1915, in New York City, but both his parent had emigrated to the US. This play revolves around emigration, so Miller has had a lot of personal experience.
This play is based in the late 1940’s, just after the Second World War, when many people were emigrating to the US,...

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A Sample of Factors to Define Modern United States Masculinity
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Introduction
During the twentieth century there have been several leading studies, findings and theories to attempt to rationalize and explain masculinity and gender roles in the United States. Some have been based on biblical reference, others on pure animal instinct and some based on modern research. In the following pages I will describe my own factors and qualities that define what it means to be man; that is to...

Shimeng Zhao
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Do you feel that our ideals of femininity and masculinity are
learned or natural? Why?
Give specific examples
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Femininity and masculinity or one's gender identity refers to the degree to which
persons see themselves as masculine or feminine given what it means to be a man or woman
in society. Femininity and masculinity are rooted in the social rather than the biological.
Societal members decide what being male or female means, and males will generally respond
by...

"The Dangers of Femininity" by Lucy Gilbert and Paula Webster discusses gender roles in society, and Messages Men Hear: Constructing Masculinities by Ian Harris discusses specifically the gender roles of men. According to Gilbert and Webster, "the two-gender system mandates masculine and feminine beings who are unequal, giving one set social power and the other none." (41) These masculine and feminine qualities are not just determined by sex. They are defined by the certain characteristics that...

﻿ In Sharon Bird’s work, “Welcome to the Men’s Club: Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity,” she explains what is homosociality and masculinity. Homosociality is when there are no sexual attractions held by men for members of their own sex. But according to Lipman-Blumen, homosociality promotes the distinction between men and women through segregation in social institutions. Not only that, Lipman says it also promotes the distinction of hegemonic masculinity and nonhegemonic...

Men put pressure upon themselves to be viewed in a certain way by society and others. Masculinity is defined as "the quality or condition of being masculine." Male psyche is best defined as "to put into the right psychological frame of mind." [dictionary.com] Three stories that show masculinity and male psyche are, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven" by Sherman Alexie, "The Bath" and "A Small Good Thing" by Raymond Carver, and "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka. In sociology, Janet...

Masculinity is a topic that has been debated in our society extensively, through research as well as in informal settings. Many wonder what it means to be masculine, and if we can really assign a definition to such a subjective term. After all, shouldn't one's own perception be the determinant of what constitutes masculinity? This self-construction would be the ideal in our society, but unfortunately, it represents a false belief. Masculinity has certain characteristics assigned to it by our...

“There may be numerous ways in which international relations are implicated in the construction of masculinities and masculine identities; through the direct disciplining of male bodies, through numerous political and institutional practices, and through broader cultural and ideological links.”
Unquestioningly, more and more people believe that “the personal becomes political” nowadays, we can see that even for subjects that suppose to be those of intimate details of private lives have become...

Explain and briefly evaluate how males are socialised into traditional masculinities
Hegemonic masculinity describes the patriarchal working class males, those who have labouring or manual jobs. He has to be physically tough and dominant to assert his masculinity. He is definitely heterosexual, technically competent, is sexist and aggressive. Males are socialised into traditional masculinities by a variety of socialisation agents.
The school is instrumental in the socialisation of males into...

The way a man presents himself and the actions he commit often have a way to meddle with women. In the novella, “The Virgin and the Gipsy” D.H. Lawrence presents a compelling story in which a virgin youth, Yvette Saywell, is in complete mesmerisation by a gipsy whom she barely knows. Lawrence presents the readers with the psychological mindset of Yvette, to have an understanding of the emotions she goes through every time she encounters the gipsy. Masculinity is often associated with being...

Victorian ideas of masculinity.
The concept of Victorian masculinity is a diverse one since it was influenced by numerous aspects and factors such as domesticity, economy, gender roles, imperialism, manners, religion and much more. Some of these aspects seem to be quite naturally related to one another, while others seem none-relational. For the males, this included a vast amount of pride in their work, protectiveness over their wives, and an aptitude for good social behaviour. The Victorians...

‘’The experience of the Great War stripped men of their masculinity’’explore the ways in which Barker, Sassoon and Owen portray this in their writing.
Sassoon and Owen as poets and Barker as a novelist, explore through their works of literature the changing and challenging notions of masculinity experienced as a result of The Great War. Furthermore, all three writers suggest that the often overlooked reality of the conflict was the creation of a subversion of the stereotypical ‘heroic soldier’....

﻿How do Tennessee Williams and Ian McEwan present masculinity and Femininity as major themes in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘Enduring Love’?
Masculinity and femininity are defined as a set of qualities, characteristics or roles generally considered typical of, or appropriate to, a man or woman respectively [1]. Both the novel ‘Enduring Love’ (1997) and the Play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1947) presents masculinity and femininity but in different ways and era’s. McEwan presents these two...

Masculinity is a prevalent theme in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge. The four leading male characters in the play; Eddie, Rodolpho, Marco and Alfieri; each play different roles and different types of men. Miller has represented men and masculinity in an unforgiving light in the play. It appears that it is men that confuse and create problems in the characters' lives. Each character's actions are effected by the conflicting forces of determinism, where every event and situation is the...

What Kind of Man/Woman Are You?
What is the role of a man in today’s society? It seems like masculinity has declined, and machismo is no longer required of men. A magazine article from The Atlantic went as far as to declare that “The End of Men” is upon us. Over the last few decades, the role in the work force has transitioned from brawns to brain. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, men’s share of labor force with women has declined from 70 percent in 1945 to 50 percent in 2009....

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Cathedral Analysis
Cathedral Analysis
In Raymond Carver’s Cathedral there is a lot of symbolism relating to the narrator’s close mindedness. In this world there are people that are physically impaired, but this does not limit them in connecting with people emotionally. Some people who are not impaired have a tougher time realizing that they are the ones spiritually blind and unable to connect with people. The narrator is a man who is a person who is...

In Pat Barker's Regeneration, emasculation is a major concern for the characters at the Craiglockhart Hospital. The patients' fear of emasculation is reflected in their dreams, nightmares, and relationships with other characters. Anderson has a dream where he is being tied down with corsets, Rivers and Sasoon discus the "intermediate sex" and the meaning of being "neuter," but most importantly, Prior's fear of emasculation effects his treatment and his life at the hospital.
Billy Prior is a...

In the play 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller, the play's protagonist, Eddie, has a very particular idea on the qualities that show true masculinity. When other characters in the play do not conform to these ideas, Eddie becomes hostile and in some cases aggressive towards these characters, such as Rodolfo who does not conform to these qualities, and Marco, who does demonstrate these characteristics, but in a way that makes Eddie feel threatened.
Eddie feels that all men should show...

﻿ In "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway, a rich man with his wife on an African safari shows himself a coward when he runs from a wounded lion, to the disgust of both his safari guide, Robert Wilson and his wife. Hemingway uses imagery, representation and the narrative voice to reveal the importance of demands placed by heteronormative masculinity. Hemingway contrasts physical descriptions, weapons used and character perspectives to establish the identity of a...

﻿Why do males have negative perceptions of dance and participation in dance lessons?
In the following assignment I will be discussing and analysing male’s perceptions and attitudes towards dance and participation during dance lessons. The aim of my assignment is to try and establish the particular reasons behind this negative perception and to discover whether this is the case for all males or just the majority/minority. The research will be conducted mainly in schools. An all-male school in...

A Real Man
Men around the world are constantly kept in line, on what exactly a man is expected to be. This is policed through everyday living and society has zero tolerance for margin of error. However, this can have a great deal of psychological issues towards young boys as they go through this traumatic transition at a young age. Consistently ridiculed, and forced to behave certain ways preventing them from appearing feminine. The guidance stems from close relatives, peers, and even...

Manhood means something very different for each of the three male characters: Unoka, Okonkwo and Nwoye. I believe that idea of manhood holds the most meaning for Okonkwo. Okonkwo was scared of being seen as feminine or “soft”. Okonkwo based his beliefs on manhood on very traditional values. Everything good in Okonkwo's life has come from masculine dominated or associated ideals. Starting from a very early age Okonkwo has feared being like his father, amongst other negative attributes Okonkwo...

Gender Mosaics: A Masculinist Reading of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
An individual’s esteem of himself and thus, by extension, others’ opinion of him is determined by a simultaneous play of variegated factors. This paper is an attempt to unravel various such subtleties of a masculine identity as depicted in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. At the same time, it also tries to determine the importance of culture in determining an individual’s identity and that of transcending...

Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo's self-destruction was caused by his drive for masculinity . Okonkwo's fear of being a failure caused Okonkwo to hide behind a veneer of anger and aggression. Okonkwo's masculinity was all he had and was the factor that controlled his behavior. He was often consumed in his actions of masculinity that seemed to know no limits. Also, a crucial flaw was his inability to accept change in tradition. He was not able to change with the values of both societies and the...

"I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main theme is manliness..." once said by Ernest Gaines . Although Ernest Hemingway takes a different route to manliness in his book, The Sun Also Rises. It is made evident with the radical reevaluation of what it is to be masculine, and the rendering of Jake's manhood, useless because of an injury obtained during World War 1 that the recurring theme is the male insecurity.
First, the male insecurity is shown as World War 1 questioned what...

17 October 2013
Biceps or Boobs
In this excerpt of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey captures the significance of the emasculator, Nurse Ratched, being emasculated by Randle Patrick McMurphy for the first extremely obvious time in the novel. Just as the nurse believes that she has defeated McMurphy and the rest of the ward, McMurphy has other plans for her. Through the use of various literary techniques Kesey develops the theme of being emasculated versus the allusion of...

Text and Performance Quarterly Vol. 29, No. 1, January 2009, pp. 77Á93
Metrosexuality can Stuff it: Beef Consumption as (Heteromasculine) Fortiﬁcation
C. Wesley Buerkle
In this essay I explore the importance of beef consumption in performing a traditional masculinity that defies the supposed effeminization embodied in the image of the metrosexual. Research on perceptions of men and women eating demonstrates cultural visions of eating as a masculine activity. Furthermore, cultural analysis...

﻿Carlie McKibben
Mrs. Parker
Honors English 10
12/18/13
Gender Theory in Macbeth
Society assigns certain roles for women and men. In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, gender roles play an important part in violence. Also, both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s characters appeal to the role of being masculine and have roles that appeal to the opposite gender along with the three witches.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are Shakespeare’s most obvious and dominant attempt to cross the barrier of gender...

Rebecca Szostak
Marion
Eng 112 FJT03
11 February 2013
It’s all in the hair
Lucky Tiger hair tonic for men uses a slick, comical approach to attracting men to buy their product. They appeal to men’s most stereotypical, primal desire to be a “man’s man.” According to their website Lucky Tiger has been in business for over 75 years. This advertisement has a vintage feel, assuming it came from the 1950s-1960s era. The ad runs in mainly men’s magazines like Maxim, Men’s Fitness and Playboy...

The Summary of masculinity in movies
Masculine roles have effective power in recent movies. In the chapter, the author who is Kenneth Mackinnon talks about ‘masculinity in movies’ by variety ways. He not only considers about the different kinds of movie genres, individual movies and those male movie stars in general, but also introduces the hard body and soft body contrastively for audience. Moreover, Mackinnon mentions about the disadvantages of masculinity in the films and provides three...

Suffering, in the novel Regeneration, is presented as painful and extensive inner conflict that is present in individual patients subjected to treatment in Craiglockhart. Sassoon stated, “It was like being 3 different people and they all wanted to go different ways”. This highlights the fact that Sassoon is at war with himself, as he does not know which path to take due to his mind set on different objectives. It also shows confusion and misunderstanding, much like a child, this can show...

Nik Parr
nwp235
Old Spice Guy
When you read this, realize that I could have talked to you about the appalling American Apparel ads, which literally show girls lying in bed with their legs spread open. I had the option of ranting about Dolce and Gabanna, or Calvin Klein or any of these typical “lets have sex” ads. We all know sex sells, and I would only be savagely beating a long-dead horse to devote an entire paper to the ultra-sexualized way in which women are portrayed via submissiveness,...

Kate Chopin’s short story “Regret” depicts one instance in the life of an elderly, unmarried woman. A spinster by choice, Mamzelle Aurelie lives on her farm with her animals, her dog Ponto, and “the negroes who lived in her cabins and worked her crops”. Aurelie is accustomed to life on her own and able to run her farm because of the many masculine characteristics that she possesses, but the unexpected arrival of her neighbor’s children changes her. She is forced to confront her feminine,...

Revision Sheet
Regeneration
Masculinity and its limits are part of the main themes explored in the Regeneration
Trilogy. Barker explores these themes through different characters and their personal lives
and reaction to war ­ using memories of their post­war life, of the fighting or their behaviour in
Craiglockheart. Exemples of emasculation range from actual physical, to psychological
wounds erasing his sense of manhood. The hospital patients are constantly haunted by their ...

﻿Machismo
Machismo is a cultural ideal that determines many characteristics of Latin American male behavior, which structures interactions with women and other men. In terms of machismo, males have an extensive and almost uncontrollable sexual drive, and it is their right to satisfy that desire in the ways they choose. They can demonstrate their masculinity by having affairs and having illegitimate children. In contrast, female sexuality is seen as an object over which the male always has...

﻿Saleh Sharay
11-12-14
Psych 12
B. Scott
Tough guy’s paper
It's a documentary about how men thinks of themselves as masculine and what parts to show to be manly and not a wimp or a punk. And in the video they asked people what you think a man is, and people’s answers were that a man has to be physical, strong, independent, powerful, commanding, tough, athletic, and muscular. And it's all about being tough to be dominant male and how men always want to be tougher than one another. Studies shown...

﻿Kathleen Licari
Professor Stephen Allen
History 100
25 September 2014
Gender Matters
In the riveting novel, Lieutenant Nun, Catalina de Erauso goes against every norm for a young woman in Spain. This story told from a first person point of view has many themes including religion, violence and gender. Catalina de Erauso was able to achieve things disguised as a man that she wouldn’t have been able to as a woman. Catalina was able to embrace her masculine alter-ego and did so by resorting to...

﻿English Essay - How does Billy Elliot represent relationships and identity?
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not words.”
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
In the film “Billy Elliot,” Lee Hall and Stephen Daldry use Billy’s relationships with friends and family to demonstrate themes of identity and masculinity. There are three main...

﻿English
Counterparts - Arm wrestling scene (page92)
Summary:
This section details the first arm wrestle between Farrington and Weathers. During the match, Weathers finds it particularly easy compared to Farrington, bringing his hand down slowly only after 30 seconds. Farrington gets extremely embarrassed about this and he flushes a dark red with anger and humiliation. We momentarily go into Farrington’s mind as he calls Weathers a ‘stripling’, belittling him, however he then goes on to...

Destany Johnson
Professor Smith
English 100
12 November 2012
Man Hood in America
Manhood is the state or status of being a man. Young men today range from being weak to silly and immature. As children young men are taught to be a certain way like if there are to parents in the household the mother can teach him how to treat a lady or some womanly things and the father can teach him manly things like sports, how to throw or catch a ball, how to play sports, and how to fix a car. Denae...

Cavan O’Brien
Detective Fiction
Mid-term Paper
10/18/2012
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 production Rear Window is indeed a film primarily concerned with masculinity, or better yet emasculation, and the male gaze. The central character L.B. Jefferies, or Jeff, is a newspaper photographer who recently broke his leg snapping pictures at an auto race. He is now confined to a wheelchair and spends all of his time observing his neighbors from his Greenwich Village Apartment window. When he sees...

In the play "Macbeth", Shakespeare illustrates the evil temptations created by the lust for power. Shakespeare uses characters such as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to show the corruption caused by the desire for more supremacy. Macbeth, being a Scottish General and the Thane of Glamis, is superior to almost everyone and commands much authority. His appetite for power increases when the three witches prophesize his future, in which they foretell him to become the Thane of Cawdor and then eventually...

In the novels The Time Of The Hero (TTOTH) by Mario Vargas Llosa and Things Fall Apart (TFA) by Chinua Achebe, both writers focus on the idea of hubris and the excessive pride of powerful characters. In fact both the Jaguar (TTOTH) and Okonkwo (TFA) are characters, which represents this idea of Hubris, as they’ve been shaped by their social environment and the notion of manliness and hierarchy. In TFA, Okonkwo respond to the Igbo society through his obsession of being hyper-masculine. In TTOTH,...

“Tough Guise”
In the 1999 film, “Tough Guise”, anti-violence educator, Jackson Katz, takes viewers through the penalties of violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity. He explains masculinity as a “mask” worn by men to shield vulnerability and hide their humanity. This “mask” has taken a lot forms but the one Katz argues to be the most important is what he refers to as the “tough guise”. First I will explain Katz’s analysis and argument about the nature of “tough guise”, then the many...

II: Battling for supremacy - The Retrosexual versus the Metrosexual.
One theory that has been used to account for the construction of identity is the conception of Binary Opposition. Frequently, when the notion of binary opposition is considered, the use of ‘Other’ is manifest. “Otherness is a fundamental category of human thought... it became to contrast “Good and Evil, right and left, God and Lucifer” (de Beauvoir, 1949; 17). The ‘Other’, therefore, is utilized to provide empowerment to...

Jacques Epangue English 101, 9M2
Professor Rolando Jorif Spring 2013
The Narrative
In “About Men”, by Gretel Ehrlich, the author describes cowboys like men who seem to have trouble communicating with and relating to women, yet cling to an "adolescent dependency" on women to take care of them. This trouble of communication with women can be perceived by others as a sign of weakness even a lack of virility. However, according to Ehrlich it may be because of historical and...

A View From the Bridge Final Coursework Essay
By Salman Ramjaun 10GE...
How does Arthur Miller present the ideas of Manliness, Hostility and Aggression in ‘A View from the Bridge?’
‘A View from the Bridge’, a play written by Arthur Miller was set in Red Hook, Brooklyn in the 1950s; this area consisted of many Italian immigrants who came to Brooklyn to work. The tragic hero of the play named, Eddie Carbone is a 40 year old man, an American of a Sicilian background; He is described as "a...

In the clip of Prime Suspect, gender is represented in many ways using mise en scene and camera movement.
One way camera movement is used to show gender is during the scene when the Super is telling his team that their investigation is going to be led by a woman. The camera pans around the room depicting the officer’s reactions, all of which are men. This camera movement coupled with the unhappy reactions from all the men in the room shows us that this is a man’s world and that Helen Mirren’s...

Francheska Beauchamp
English 3103
801-12-0713
Prof. James L. Penner
How Men Become “Men”
How men become men? How men are men by being aggressive? Michael Kimmel in “Welcome to Guyland”& “Bros before Hos: the Guy Code” explains to us how men go through a social process by which men become “men”. Kimmel exposes some of the male myths in which society tries to establish ‘how a man has to be’. Kimmel makes a list of ten norms that the society or other men think that a man has to follow...

From DISSENT Magazine, fall 2006
A War Against Boys?
By Michael Kimmel
D OUG Anglin isn’t likely to flash across the radar screen at an Ivy League admissions
office. A seventeen-year-old senior at Milton High School, a suburb outside Boston,
Anglin has a B-minus average and plays soccer and baseball. But he’s done
something that millions of other teenagers haven’t: he’s sued his school district for
sex discrimination.
Anglin’s lawsuit, brought with the aid of his father, a Boston...

Alpha Males: Tough Guys or Tough Guise?
In the animal kingdom the presence of an alpha male is often part of the social order. These dominant males find their rank amongst their peers through displays of physical prowess and dominance. Earning this esteemed position often affords ample opportunity to mate in a system developed to ensure only the strongest and most resilient offspring. In American society today, even the considerably less masculine men often find ways to woo a partner. Despite...

Film Review
May 18, 2012
Boyz N the Hood
The film, “Boyz N the Hood”, written by John Singleton in 1991, exhibits the upbringing of young African American teenagers who are brought up in less than ideal living conditions in their neighborhood. The film compares the distinctions between the lifestyles of Tre Styles and his friends’, Darren and Ricky Baker. Singleton demonstrates the importance of patriarchy and the focus on the teenagers to exhibit hegemonic masculinity while living in...

﻿According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, transgender means of, or relating to, or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity from the one which corresponds to the person’s sex at birth. Children have commonly developed their gender and identity roles by the age of three. At such a young and tender age, it is important that schools be prepared to handle situations these children may face as well as give them the support they may need.
In 2013, a 6 year old boy from...